Summary

Joe Reis and Miriah Peterson announce the postponement of the Practical Data Summit, acknowledging they underestimated the effort required to deliver a truly premium independent data event on their original aggressive timeline. Rather than risk putting on a mediocre event, they are pushing the Summit to 2028 and pivoting to smaller boutique events across the US in 2027.

Key Insight

Choosing to delay rather than ship something average is itself a quality decision — the Fyre Festival reference signals self-awareness that execution risk in live events is real and reputation-defining.

Spicy Quotes (click to share)

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  We underestimated what it takes to deliver an event of this caliber, especially on an aggressive timeline like we currently face.

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  Throwing together an average event is doable, but that's not what any of us want.

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  Rather than deliver a potentially underwhelming event (we're not in the business of repeating Fyre Festival), we've decided to postpone the Practical Data Summit.

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  We'd rather take the time and do it right, and make the Summit the event you deserve and will dream of returning to every year.

Tone

apologetic, candid, pragmatic